PBA postpones 3rd game after COVID-19 scare

The PBA postponed a third game featuring Blackwater on Wednesday, October 28, even as the league had reported that the player who initially tested positive for the coronavirus yielded negative results in confirmatory tests.

Blackwater was slated to face Magnolia at 4 pm in the league bubble in Pampanga, but the PBA announced the postponement of the match pending the approval of the government’s Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).

The 6:45 game between San Miguel Beer and Meralco will push through as scheduled. 

Last October 26, the PBA also postponed the match between TNT and NorthPort as a precautionary measure. 

TNT was the last team to face Blackwater, which had a player who tested positive for the virus last week just days after a referee also yielded the same results.

The league later reported that both the Blackwater player and referee tested negative in the confirmatory antigen and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction tests (RT-PCR).

The October 25 match between Blackwater and Rain or Shine was the first game postponed following initial positive results. – Rappler.com